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. 1984 Mar;4(3):552–558. doi: 10.1128/mcb.4.3.552

Abelson murine leukemia virus-transformed cells that lack p53 protein synthesis express aberrant p53 mRNA species.

D Wolf, S Admon, M Oren, V Rotter
PMCID: PMC368735  PMID: 6144042

Abstract

Cells of the Abelson murine leukemia virus-transformed line L12 that lack the p53 protein also lack polyadenylated mRNA capable of directing the synthesis of p53 in a cell-free system. Direct analysis of stable polyadenylated mRNA from a variety of cell lines shows that all p53 producers shared a common mRNA species (2.0 kilobases) which hybridized with a p53-specific cDNA probe. This species, which appears to be the mature, normal-sized p53 mRNA, was totally undetectable in L12 cells, which did not produce p53 in vivo. However, L12 cells contained two major p53-specific mRNA species of a substantially larger size (3.5 and 6.5 kilobases) than the p53-specific mRNA in the p53-producing cells. Genomic DNA analysis uncovered an apparent alteration in the 5' proximal part of only one p53 gene, which is unique to the L12 cell line. It is thus possible that the nonproducer phenotype of L12 cells is due at least in part to an alteration within a p53-specific DNA sequence. These findings define a system in which production of p53 appears to be efficiently regulated at the level of stable mRNA and which can be used to study the mechanisms controlling p53 expression in Abelson murine leukemia virus-transformed cells.

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